* Charts number of OA policies over recent years* These mandates are either…..*last year still saw a 25% growth in funder policies*significant growth though, a real explosion was in institutional policies – almost tripling the amount of the previous year.

*20% year on year growth

*On average at least 10 new journals being added to the portfolioGrowth in OA journals is significant because it has become the more financially attractive way to launch journalsIts not easy to launch a new journal with library subscription budgets reducing, but OA makes it possibleInterestingly though for BMC, that whilst we are branching into new subject areas and launching new journals, many of our new titles are increasingly from journals, societies, wanting to transfer to the OA model.&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;not surprising that all of the growth in these areas leads to an increase in submissions….

*30% growth in submissions

Over 340 worldwide but only 2 in Africa….Stellenbosch and University of the Witwatersrand

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1.
The international
open access landscape
Carrie Calder
Head of Marketing,
BioMed Central

2.
Scope
• The open access landscape and its growth
• Open access and impact
• Managing the cost of OA publishing
• The future…

3.
Where is open access in 2010?
• There are over 5600 open access journals in the DOAJ
• Over 1000 open access journals are indexed by ISI
• Open access to research is now mandated in over 100
institutions and by 45 funders.
• Submissions to OA journals grew by over 44% between 2008
and 2009
• Open access firmly part of the mainstream..

7.
Policy highlights
• 46 funder policies including RCUK, Wellcome
Trust, NIH Public Access Policy
• Institutional policies
- 3 times as many policies than a year ago
- Compact for open-access publishing equity (COPE)
- Number of policies within Africa?....
Information on all policies available at
www.eprints.org/openaccess/policysignup/

16.
Open access having impact
• Swan, A. (2010) The Open Access citation
advantage: Studies and results to date.
- 27 of 31 show open access having a positive
citation advantage
- Where positive advantage - increase in citations
varying from -5 to 600%
http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/18516/

29.
Conclusions
• Open access journals are proving to offer impact
• Variety of payment routes for APCs being explored
• Open access movement going from strength to strength
• So much scope for more growth still, especially within Africa
• CALL TO ACTION: what could you do?